RSS Display: Links to url other than RSS source.

[tjmorgan]

Hello,
I need to display an rss feed. The complicated part is that when people click on the headline or title I don't want it to link back to its source, it should link to a page in my site.
Second best would be to display the same RSS Feed, but not have it link at all. Then I could put a "Read More" under it to link to the page in my site.

Could I use a DD script to do this? Or maybe modify one of the gajax scripts?

Thanks, Todd

[ddadmin]

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[Medyman]

Hello,
I need to display an rss feed. The complicated part is that when people click on the headline or title I don't want it to link back to its source, it should link to a page in my site.
Second best would be to display the same RSS Feed, but not have it link at all. Then I could put a "Read More" under it to link to the page in my site.

Could I use a DD script to do this? Or maybe modify one of the gajax scripts?

Thanks, Todd

All of those changes have to be done at the RSS creation level. You could, in theory, just not read in the link with the gAjax script. That might be the easiest way to go.

But since that goes against common practice, I wouldn't recommend doing that for usability concerns. How are you creating your RSS feeds? You might be able to tweak that process so that the link is to the page that you want.

[tjmorgan]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex18/gajaxpausescroller.htm Is the script I was trying to use. I may have to find one that is less complicated and does not scroll.

Medyman,
Thank you for your response.

I am trying to use this rss feed:
http://www.thenewsroom.com/api/rss/F67822.rss
if that's of any use..

To show the headlines on this video feed player, and possibly link to the page it is embeded on:
http://www.sumtercentral.com/parentstv

The video player is from Voxant but embeded on my site, the rss they provide links to the same player only on their website.

I don't think I can scrape the player in any way?

Any more ideas?

How would I go about removing the link completely?

Thanks again, Todd

[Medyman]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do? Do you have a working example of the video player?

That page you linked to only has this on it:

<script language="javascript" src="http://www.thenewsroom.com//mash/swf/voxant_player.js?a=F67822&m=634969&w=300&h=500&v=2"></script>

[tjmorgan]

It takes a second to load. If you don't see it place your mouse around the top lef corner. These players work fine when embeded on a standard html page. This was just a file I loaded up for test purposes.

The players that you can embed from Voxant are constantly fed news videos. I don't want to embed the player on my home page, but I do want to display what stories are currently featured on the player, on my home page. Then visitors could click on the link, or a link under the feed "view stories" and be led to the page with the embeded player.

The rss feed that voxant provides, contains the same headlines as the player, only they link to the embede player on their (Voxants) website.

I hope I am being more clear, and I appreciate the input.

Thanks, Todd